On Grand Strategy

by John Lewis Gaddis

You may be looking at clouds, like Polonius, but you’ll need to have both feet firmly planted on the ground.

that the end of its argument didn’t “remember its beginning.”

Only a state at peace with itself could save its soul.

Proportionality comes from what grand strategy is: the alignment of potentially infinite aspirations with necessarily limited capabilities. And fairness? I’d say from bending the alignment toward freedom.